Business

By Ann Saphir and Howard Schneider JACKSON HOLE, Wyo.

By April Joyner NEW YORK (Reuters) – The benchmark S&P 500 ended little changed on Thursday as a fall in U.S. jobless claims offset data showing a contraction in U.S. manufacturing activity while

By Karl Plume and Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) – China has purchased about only half the U.S. soybeans it pledged to buy earlier this year, a U.S.

By Laila Kearney PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A biofuels producer said on Thursday it is proposing to acquire the fire-damaged Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery and convert it to make renewable

(Reuters) – Gap Inc posted quarterly same-store sales that fell short of analysts’ estimates on Thursday, as Old Navy suffered its worse comparable sales figures in three years ahead of a

By Jennifer Ablan (Reuters) – The bond market is in a “bubble,” particularly sovereign debt, Guggenheim Partners global chief investment officer Scott Minerd warned on Thursday, and he said that

By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – An index of stock markets worldwide crept lower on Thursday on uncertainty over the outlook for U.S. interest rate cuts and weak U.S. manufacturing data that

(Reuters) – News Corp is developing a news-aggregation service to compete with Alphabet Inc’s Google News and could be launched later this year, the Wall Street Journal reported

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German industrial group Thyssenkrupp is in talks to buy metals distributor Kloeckner & Co in a move to strengthen its materials trading business,